History Characters / PalworldPals

* {{Expy}}: They are basically a CompositeCharacter for the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dark_(type) Dark]], [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ghost_(type) Ghost]], [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Poison_(type) Poison]], and more malevolent [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fairy_(type) Fairy]] type Pokémon.

'''Pals & Pal Elements''' | [[Characters/PalworldLamballToCelaray Lamball to Celaray (1-25)]] | [[Characters/PalworldDirehowlToGorirat Direhowl to Gorirat (26-49)]] | [[Characters/PalworldBeegardeToRagnahawk Beegarde to Ragnahawk (50-74)]] | [[Characters/PalworldKatressToAnubis Katress to Anubis (75-100)]] | [[Characters/PalworldJormuntideToJetragon Jormuntide to Bellanoir (101-112)]] -]]]

'''Pals & Pal Elements''' | [[Characters/PalworldLamballToCelaray Lamball to Celaray (1-25)]] | [[Characters/PalworldDirehowlToGorirat Direhowl to Gorirat (26-49)]] | [[Characters/PalworldBeegardeToRagnahawk Beegarde to Ragnahawk (50-74)]] | [[Characters/PalworldKatressToAnubis Katress to Anubis (75-100)]] | [[Characters/PalworldJormuntideToJetragon Jormuntide to Jetragon (101-111)]] -]]]

* DragonVarietyPack: The Dragon element includes creatures such as Western dragons (Jetragon), Eastern dragons (Azurobe), serpents (Jormutide), general dinosaurs and reptiles (Dinossom and Relaxaurus), and even [[LandShark Land Sharks]] (Orserk) and mammals (Chillet). The Dragon breeding group expands it further to basically anything reptilian.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Pals are generally better about avoiding this compared to Pokémon, but a fair number of them are often bigger or smaller than their real-life basis. A great example of this would be Teafant, who is supposed to be an elephant based on [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cufant_(Pokémon) Cufant]]… who looks more like a baby elephant than a fully grown one. It's not as bad as in ''Pokémon'', but it's still noticeable here.

Pals are the eponymous creatures of the game ''Palworld''. Native to the Palpagos Islands, Pals have been a constant companion to humans for as long as humans have existed there as well. Pals can be caught help the player, willingly or unwillingly, in farming, breeding, fighting, or working in factories... Pals can also be sold or slaughtered for food and mistreated, but can be very useful friends as well.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Pals are generally better about avoiding this compared to Pokémon, but a fair number of them are often bigger or smaller than their real-life basis. A great example of this would be Teafant, who is supposed to be an elephant based on [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cufant_(Pokémon) Cufant]]... who looks more like a baby elephant than a fully grown one. It's not as bad as in Pokémon, but it's still noticeable here.

* BerserkButton: If anyone attacks you, your Pals will fly into a rage and won’t rest until they’ve destroyed the threat. The Castaway found he couldn’t stop his monsters at his home base killing a hostile human of the lost civilization he wanted to open peaceful negotiation with. You will experience similar problems if you try catching a Pal close to your base, because as soon as it lands a hit on you ''every last of your workers'' will come charging in and carpet-bomb your quarry into uncatchable paste with their attacks.

* BossBattle: All battles with Alpha Pals clearly qualify as this. They're generally far higher levels than is typical in that region, tend to have far higher health and you can capture them to add them in your party. They're also [[LargeAndInCharge far larger than typical Pals of the region]].

* DefeatMeansFriendship: The rule of ''Palworld'' is the same as ''Pokémon'': you have to beat the Pals within an inch of their lives and get them inside of a Pal Sphere. Granted, ''unlike'' its inspiration, [[CombatPragmatist there's nothing preventing you from ganging up or even shooting a Pal yourself]]...

* ElementalPowers: All Pals have an elemental alignment or two, boiling down to [[NonElemental Neutral]], [[GreenThumb Grass]], [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[MakingASplash Water]], [[ShockAndAwe Electric]], [[AnIcePerson Frost]], [[DishingOutDirt Earth]], [[CastingAShadow Dark]] (which also encompasses [[PoisonousPerson poison abilities]]) and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]].

* NonHumanSidekick: To their respective trainers. The role is usually filled by the protagonist's SignatureMon but they all qualify.

* AcidAttack: They can learn Acid Rain as an ability, which is surprising for a {{Phonymon}} game to give their Water-type {{Expy}}

* MonstrousCannibalism: Pals from species that drop meat upon being defeated/captured can be fed meat from their own species. Or even themselves.

* GardenGarment: Flopie and Lyleen are dressed in beautiful flower-like garments that are a natural part of their bodies.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: While played straight in regards to Pals with fiery body parts being able to handle flammable objects without igniting them, this is averted when it comes to using their flame-producing moves, as a Pal so much as passing nearby a wooden building using a WreathedInFlames move will set it ablaze, which due to fire spreading too fast to effectively extinguish large wooden objects means you might as well say goodbye to it and hope you've advanced far enough in the Tech tree to make stone buildings.

** On the ''other'' hand, there's just as much of a case to be made that Dark-elemental Pals aren't evil, [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold just misunderstood]]. Pals like Depresso and Hoocrates are outright harmless, Mau is seen as a case of TheSacredDarkness due to its tail being perceived to bring it good luck, many, ''many'' Dark-elemental Pals have wandered into the hands of heroic Pal trainers to be not only a massive help to any Pal trainer's Base, but also potentially capable of love and affection -- even those aforementioned "evil" Dark-elemental Pals like Incineram Noct or Velbat.

* ActionBomb: The moves Implode and Megaton Implosion, which both knock out the user (or kill it, in the case of the wild) in exchange for inflicting massive damage on the opponent, are Normal moves.

* BlowYouAway: They actually learn a move called Air Cannon, which as the name implies, is them firing a blast of highly-pressurized air at its target. Fenglope and Nitewing respectively both also learn Cloud Tempest and Tornado Attack, which also involve using wind to attack opponents with. The rest of the lion's share of Wind attacks tends to go to Grass-elemental Pals.

* {{Expy}}: The Neutral-elemental is for all intents and purposes the exact same as Pokémon's [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Normal_(type) Normal-type]].
* LightEmUp: Several of their abilities, such as Power Blast, Power Bomb and Pal Blast, are all associated with blasts of yellowy-light magic. It doesn't hurt that [[OlympusMons Paladius]] is [[LightIsGood associated with it]].

* NonElemental: Pals of this element tend to lack any specific element to them, often only being weak to Dark-elemental attacks and deals neutral damage to every Pal in the game. In exchange nothing resists it, though.

* WaveMotionGun: Their Ersatz-Hyper Beam in Pal Blast is this... and ''unlike'' Hyper Beam, it's not only ''not'' AwesomeButImpractical, but straight-up the best Neutral-elemental skill you can get in the game!

Grass-elemental Pals are associated with GreenThumb powers. They tend to come either as [[{{Planimal}} Planimals]], [[OurFairiesAreDifferent benevolent fairies]] or even [[BigCreepyCrawlies insects]]. \\\

* BigCreepyCrawlies: A fair amount of Grass-elemental Pals -- such as Cinnamoth, Beegarde, Elizabee, Vaelet and Warsect -- are actually inspired by insects and ''Pokémon's'' Bug-type, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute and are functionally the exact same as that typing]]. Also like said type, most of them are utterly massive compared to real bugs.
* BlowYouAway: They actually get quite a few wind-based spells themselves, from Wind Cutter to Grass Tornado. They naturally take a [[WindIsGreen bright green hue with it as well]]. As if acknowledging this, many Grass-elemental Pals learn quite a few of the other wind-using skills that Neutral-elemental Pals get as well.

* ColorCodedElements: The Grass Element is represented as Green, and many Grass-elementals are varying shades of green and yellow.

* {{Expy}}: They're actually not entirely the Grass-type that you know; they're a CompositeCharacter of the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Grass_(type) Grass]] type ''on top'' of the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bug_(type) Bug]] and more benevolent side of the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fairy_(type) Fairy]] types.
* FairyCompanion: Several Grass-elementals -- like Flopie, Verdash, Vaelet, Petalia and Lyleen -- actually take a lot from the more benevolent side of ''Pokémon's'' Fairy-type, often representing the "Seelie Court" with whimsical, friendly fairies and nature spirits. They're in every way more benevolent than [[TheFairFolk the night-time fairies]].

* AntiStructure: Downplayed, Fire attacks are great at destroying wooden base structures by setting them ablaze, but stone or metal structures will not catch fire.
* AttackAttackAttack: Much like it's counterpart in Pokémon, Fire-elemental Pals tend to have nothing but physical attacks as they burn everything in their path.

* ElementalPersonalities: While there's inevitably exceptions to the rule, a great deal of Fire-elemental Pals are portrayed as HotBlooded, HairTriggerTemper or even TheBerserker, like Arsox, Vanwyrm, Ragnahawk, Blazehowl and Blazamut.

* {{Expy}}: [[CaptainObvious Goes without saying]], but they're functionally the exact same as ''Pokémon's'' [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fire_(type) Fire-type]].

* GlassCannon: They tend to have this stat distribution of having high Attack, but low Defense. Helping things is that they're the ''only'' element in the game who hits for ''two'' different elements super effectively.

Water-elemental Pals are associated with hydrokinetic abilities. They often tend to be amphibious or maritime animals. \\\

* {{Expy}}: [[CaptainObvious Needless to say]], they're pretty much one-for-one ''Palworld's'' equivalent of the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Water_(type) Water-type]].

* IceMagicIsWater: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]], unlike its equivalent in ''Pokémon''. Most Water-elementals that aren't part-Ice, with a few exceptions like Fuack, Gobfin and Suzaku Aqua usually ''cannot'' learn Ice-elemental moves without Skill Fruits, likely done to balance the element more comparatively speaking.

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: The pen-ultimate and ultimate skills for Electric elementals -- Lightning Strike and Lightning Bolt -- almost look like calling upon God's judgement to smite the poor sucker in the way of you and your Pal.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Electricelemental-s utterly obliterate most Water-elementals, but they're sitting ducks against Ground-elementals.
* {{Expy}}: [[CaptainObvious Goes without saying]], but they're functionally the same as ''Pokémon's'' [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Electric_(type) Electric-type]].

* LastDiscMagic: Lightning Strike's generally the last skill an Electric- elementalPal gets, and for good reason.
* LivingBattery: Electric-elemental {{mons}} can be used to power devices that need electricity by having them generate and direct it into a generator..
* LogicalWeakness: Electricity is not conductible through the ground, so it's a given Ground-elemental Pals would shrug off Electric-elemental powers like it's nothing.

Ice- elementalPals are often commonly found in cold regions to the far north and the mountains. They practice cryokinetic abilities, but they're easily melted by flames. \\\

* HarmlessFreezing: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Completely averted]], unlike ''Pokémon''. Frostbite from overexposure ''will'' kill you long enough in ''Palworld'', and many Ice-elementals can deal devastating damage to other Pals. On the other hand, Ice skills can freeze enemies solid for a short duration, which does not inflict additional damage on its own.

* LateCharacterSyndrome: [[ZigZaggedTrope Played with]]. On the one hand, most of the Ice-elementals you can get appear in the Snowy Mountains, the ''last'' region of the game... but on the other hand, there's plenty of early-game Ice-elemental Pals for you to acquire, like Pengullet, Penking, Chillet, Swee and Sweepa.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: They utterly devastate Electric elementals, but they themselves are often weak to Grass-elemental attacks as a result.
* {{Expy}}: They're cut and dry as a CompositeCharacter for [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ground_(type) Ground]] and [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rock_(type) Rock]] type Pokémon.

* MightyGlacier: They tend to be relatively slow, and often ''very'' high Attack and Defense to balance it out.

Dark-elemental Pals are known for their ability to project black magic. They are almost never found during they day; they often either inhabit caverns or come out at night. They are likewise also associated with anything from creatures associated with the dark element, to malevolent fairies, ogres or creatures of myth, to even wraiths and ghosts. \\\

* CastingAShadow: Unlike the Dark-type of ''Pokemon'' that inspires it, which revolves around CombatPragmatism with only a small amount of darkness-based attacks, the Dark element of ''Palworld'' is directly based around having the crux of its abilities being darkness-based magic alongside most Dark-elemental having connection to shadows and the night,

** On the one hand, there's a very strong argument to be made the Dark-elemental is very unnatural. Many Dark-elemental Pals -- like Incineram Noct and Velbat -- are openly portrayed as malicious and often have a nasty case of HorrorHunger, and even ones that aren't inherently malicious or hostile can still be very terrifying, like Nox or Daedream. Much of the Pals in the Dark-elemental are a perversion of the natural order of things as a general rule, and represent creatures spoken in hushed whispers of the dark nights.

* {{Expy}}: They are basically a CompositeCharacter for the [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dark_(type) Dark]], [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ghost_(type) Ghost]], [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Poison_(type) Poison]] and more malevolent [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fairy_(type) Fairy]] type Pokémon.

* TemporaryBlindness: Some Dark skills have a chance to blind targets, [[InterfaceScrew greatly dimming their vision.]]
* UtilityPartyMember: Due to being NocturnalMooks, most Dark elementals at a base do not sleep at night. This means they can perform work at all times apart from eating/taking a break, making them extremely valuable for a base. A noteworthy example is the Ice/Dark Vanwyrm Cryst being the only Pal that can cool the refrigerator at all times, as other Ice Pals sleep at night.
* YourSoulIsMine: Worryingly, there's a chance you may find Souls on some Pals with the Dark element...

Dragon-elemental Pals are easily the rarest of all the Pal elementals, but they often tend to be extremely powerful. Capable of manipulating a great deal of abilities through draconic might.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: If you happen to get a Dragon-elemental Pal, you suddenly will never find yourself wont for a stronger Pal for a ''long'' time; snagging Chillet or one of the [[GreenHillZone Windswept Hill]] Dinossoms early on pays off very nicely. Most of the Dragon-elemental Pals tend to be horrifyingly strong {{Lightning Bruiser}}s, and it's for that reason many of them are very powerful in general.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Tends to run the whole gamut of different kinds of dragons, from [[DragonsAreDivine Divine Dragon]] to [[DragonsAreDemonic Demonic Dragons]] to [[DraconicAbomination Draconic Abominations]]... it also goes without saying that they're the rarest element by far, likely to make up for the fact they're on average a lot more powerful than most Pals.
* PowerEqualsRarity: They are easily the rarest element to find the wild, and are consistently the strongest stat-wise.
* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Their ultimate skill, Dragon Meteor, is a ColonyDrop that likely ''should'' [[EarthShatteringKaboom obliterate the entire planet]]... but it doesn't. It seems to look devastating entirely for the RuleOfCool.

* WeakToFire: They are melted to pieces by Fire-elemental Pals.

* IceMagicIsWater: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]], unlike its equivalent in ''Pokémon''. Most Water-elementals, with a few exceptions like Suzaku Aqua or the part-Ice Pengullet, usually ''cannot'' learn Ice-elemental moves without Skill Fruits, likely done to balance the element more comparatively speaking.

* IceMagicIsWater: Averted. Just like how Water-elementals usually can't learn Ice-elemental moves, Ice-elementals usually can't learn Water-elemental moves.

* IceMagicIsWater: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]], unlike its equivalent in ''Pokémon''. Most Water-elementals, with a few exceptions like Pengullet, usually ''cannot'' learn Ice-elemental moves without Skill Fruits, likely done to balance the element more comparatively speaking.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The element as a whole {{zigzag|gingTrope}}s between not-evil and DarkIsEvil, as there's a case to be had that [[BothSidesHaveAPoint it counts for both]]

* TheFairFolk: A massive amount of Dark-elemental Pals exhibit this theme for the more malicious elementals of "fairy"-like creatures, being otherworldly and often-time ''alien'' Pals who often appear in the dead of night to haunt people. [[DarkIsNotEvil They're not always like that]], but they often are.

* MonsterCompendium: The game has the Paldeck as its Pokédex equivalent, with a blurb appearing after catching a Pal.

* FantasticNatureReserve: Its equivalents to the Safari Zone, the Wildlife Sanctuaries, are a [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome more realistic take]] rather than hunting grounds, being actual nature reserves guarded by the PIDF where even setting foot there is considered trespassing (but EvilPaysBetter). Fortunately, the species exclusive to the sanctuary can be found as Field Bosses, allowing you to obtain them legally.

'''Pals & Pal Typings''' | [[Characters/PalworldLamballToCelaray Lamball to Celaray (1-25)]] | [[Characters/PalworldDirehowlToGorirat Direhowl to Gorirat (26-49)]] | [[Characters/PalworldBeegardeToRagnahawk Beegarde to Ragnahawk (50-74)]] | [[Characters/PalworldKatressToAnubis Katress to Anubis (75-100)]] | [[Characters/PalworldJormuntideToJetragon Jormuntide to Jetragon (101-111)]] -]]]

[[folder:Ice Type]]
!!Ice Type

Ice-type Pals are often commonly found in cold regions to the far north and the mountains. They practice cryokinetic abilities, but they're easily melted by flames. \\\
Ice-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Cryst".

* ColorCodedElements: Ice-types are represented by light-blue, and many Ice-types share the colorization.
* TheDragonslayer: Ice is ''the'' type for nailing Dragons. It's Dragon's only weakness in general, and given how powerful many Dragon-type Pals tend to be, all the better for it.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Ice-type Pals actually form a new Rock-Paper-Scissors chain; they utterly destroy most Dragon types, but in turn are melted alive by Fire-types.

* HarmlessFreezing: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Completely averted]], unlike ''Pokémon''. Frostbite from overexposure ''will'' kill you long enough in ''Palworld'', and many Ice-types can deal devastating damage to other Pals. On the other hand, Ice skills can freeze enemies solid for a short duration, which does not inflict additional damage on its own.
* IceMagicIsWater: Averted. Just like how Water-types usually can't learn Ice-type moves, Ice-types usually can't learn Water-type moves.
* AnIcePerson: Predictably, the Ice-type's abilities are all cryogenic in nature. This also makes them excellent for cooling food to keep it fresh.

* LastDiscMagic: Blizzard Spike is the last Ice-type skill a Pal often learns before maxing out, and it's predictably ''very'' powerful.
* LateCharacterSyndrome: [[ZigZaggedTrope Played with]]. On the one hand, most of the Ice-types you can get appear in the Snowy Mountains, the ''last'' region of the game... but on the other hand, there's plenty of early-game Ice-type Pals for you to acquire, like Pengullet, Penking, Chillet, Swee and Sweepa.
* WeakToFire: They are melted to pieces by Fire-type Pals.

[[folder:Ground Type]]
!!Ground Type

Ground-type Pals have the ability to manipulate the earth beneath their feet. They are often found either in the deserts or in cavern areas. \\\
Ground-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Terra".

* ColorCodedElements: Ground-types are often tan or brown, and their elemental icon is the same.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: They utterly devastate Electric types, but they themselves are often weak to Grass-type attacks as a result.

* SiliconBasedLife: Many Ground-types are mostly made up of [[ShapedLikeItself rocks]], like Digtoise and Reptyro. Any Pals that don't have this element still have basing in Ground-type attacks in general.

[[folder:Dark Type]]
!!Dark Type

Dark-type Pals are known for their ability to project black magic. They are almost never found during they day; they often either inhabit caverns or come out at night. They are likewise also associated with anything from creatures associated with the dark element, to malevolent fairies, ogres or creatures of myth, to even wraiths and ghosts. \\\
Dark-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Noct".

* AllMythsAreTrue: While there exists plenty of Pals who are merely animals who have Dark-type abilities or have no mythical status like Depresso or Hoocrates, most Pals of this type take a wide variety of inspiration from all sorts of mythical or "dark" creatures, from imps, to evil faeries, to ogres, to dark dragons, to demonic birds, to vampires, to witches, to psychopomps, to werewolves. It'd honestly be more accurate to call this type less akin to CastingAShadow as a base requirement so much as being ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight.
* BlackMagic: All Dark-type Pals are capable of some truly terrible dark magic, from merely CastingAShadow to powerful curses to using the energy of souls against its enemies to even poisonous attacks.
* CastingAShadow: They are capable of many Darkness-based magical abilities, and it's generally the crux of their elemental powers.

* {{Curse}}: Many Dark-type Pals are capable of truly devastating curses as a general rule, being experts in black magic.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The type as a whole {{zigzag|gingTrope}}s between not-evil and DarkIsEvil, as there's a case to be had that [[BothSidesHaveAPoint it counts for both]]
** On the one hand, there's a very strong argument to be made the Dark-type is very unnatural. Many Dark-type Pals -- like Incineram Noct and Velbat -- are openly portrayed as malicious and often have a nasty case of HorrorHunger, and even ones that aren't inherently malicious or hostile can still be very terrifying, like Nox or Daedream. Much of the Pals in the Dark-type are a perversion of the natural order of things as a general rule, and represent creatures spoken in hushed whispers of the dark nights.
** On the ''other'' hand, there's just as much of a case to be made that Dark-type Pals aren't evil, [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold just misunderstood]]. Pals like Depresso and Hoocrates are outright harmless, Mau is seen as a case of TheSacredDarkness due to its tail being perceived to bring it good luck, many, ''many'' Dark-type Pals have wandered into the hands of heroic Pal trainers to be not only a massive help to any Pal trainer's Base, but also potentially capable of love and affection -- even those aforementioned "evil" Dark-type Pals like Incineram Noct or Velbat.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: It's strong against Neutral-type Pals, but weak against Dragon-type Pals.

* TheFairFolk: A massive amount of Dark-type Pals exhibit this theme for the more malicious types of "fairy"-like creatures, being otherworldly and oftent-time ''alien'' Pals who often appear in the dead of night to haunt people. [[DarkIsNotEvil They're not always like that]], but they often are.

* PoisonousPerson: Many Pals who are Dark-type show some ability to use Poison to their advantage, and indeed, this is the by-and-large crux of some venomous Pals like Leezpunk. Many Dark Pals also drop Venom Glands. This isn't core to their abilities, though, and they often tend to phase out to more powerful BlackMagic down the line.
* TheSacredDarkness: Despite often being the type most associated with perverting the natural order, they are ultimately just as critical to the ecosystem as any other Pal, and in some cases many of them are revered like Mau.

* UtilityPartyMember: Due to being NocturnalMooks, most Dark Types at a base do not sleep at night. This means they can perform work at all times apart from eating/taking a break, making them extremely valuable for a base. A noteworthy example is the Ice/Dark Vanwyrm Cryst being the only Pal that can cool the refrigerator at all times, as other Ice Pals sleep at night.
* YourSoulIsMine: Worryingly, there's a chance you may find Souls on different types of Pals...

[[folder:Dragon Type]]
!!Dragon Type

Dragon-type Pals are easily the rarest of all the Pal types, but they often tend to be extremely powerful. Capable of manipulating a great deal of abilities through draconic might.

* AchillesHeel: [[KillItWithIce Ice]]. The ''one'' thing that stops a Dragon in its tracks is Ice-type attacks, as it's their one weakness.
* TheBerserker: One thing many dragons have in common is that they will fucking ''flatten you'' if you piss them off, and they fight like a berserk animal when enraged. Elphidran, Azurobe and Quivern are ''very'' much [[WhiteSheep the exception to the rule]].
* BlowYouAway: As many Dragon-type Pals can fly, it's not uncommon to see them having access to several wind-based skills from other types. Even in their own type, Elphidran has access to Mystic Whirlwind as a basic skill as well.

* ColonyDrop: The strongest Dragon-type skill in the game, Dragon Meteor, usually involves dropping a big-ass meteor on its foes.
* ColorCodedElements: A bright, vivid [[PurpleIsPowerful light purple]] is what represents the Dragon type here.

* DraconicAbomination: Several of the Dragon-types, like Astegon and the currently-unreleased Dragostrophe, are absolutely terrifying dragons who [[DragonsAreDemonic are also demonic]].

* DragonVarietyPack: The Dragon type includes creatures such as Western dragons (Jetragon), Eastern dragons (Azurobe), serpents (Jormutide), general dinosaurs and reptiles (Dinossom and Relaxaurus), and even [[LandShark Land Sharks]] (Orserk) and mammals (Chillet). The Dragon breeding group expands it further to basically anything reptilian.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: They utterly obliterate Dark-type Pals, but in turn they are weak to Ice-type attacks.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: If you happen to get a Dragon-type Pal, you suddenly will never find yourself wont for a stronger Pal for a ''long'' time; snagging Chillet or one of the [[GreenHillZone Windswept Hill]] Dinossoms early on pays off very nicely. Most of the Dragon-type Pals tend to be horrifyingly strong {{Lightning Bruiser}}s, and it's for that reason many of them are very powerful in general.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: They very much carried this trait over from [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} the other series]]. The vast majority of Dragon-type Pals are terrifying {{Lightning Bruiser}}s who hit like mack trucks and are very durable, meaning a well-trained Dragon-type Pal will last you 'til the end of the game. Arguably gets to the point of being PurposefullyOverpowered, given the ''single fastest mount in the game'' and one of the four OlympusMons is a Dragon-type Pal as well.
* LateCharacterSyndrome: You're not getting one of these bad boys until at ''LEAST'' in the mid-game with Chillet, and even then, not only is Chillet itself exceptionally strong, it's also one of the ''weakest'' Dragon-types around.

* PowerEqualsRarity: They are easily the rarest type to find the wild, and are consistently the strongest stat-wise.

* UnstoppableRage: Unless your name is Elphdran, Azurobe or Quivern, Dragon-type Pals are driven by a downright ''feverish'' sense of rage. Anger one, [[NotEnoughToBury and you'll be sent back home in pieces]].

!Pals & Pal Typings

[[folder:Neutral Type]]
!!Neutral Type

Neutral-type Pals are Pals that lack any specific Element, or are pretty close or analogous to real-world animals as much as possible.

* BadassNormal: The best way to describe some of the tougher Neutral-types. They tend to not have any specialty regarding the elements, they just fight with all they have until they win.

* BlowYouAway: They actually learn a move called Air Cannon, which as the name implies, is them firing a blast of highly-pressurized air at its target. Fenglope and Nitewing respectively both also learn Cloud Tempest and Tornado Attack, which also involve using wind to attack opponents with. The rest of the lion's share of Wind attacks tends to go to Grass-type Pals.

* ComMons: The majority of ComMons are Neutral-types, but the opposite is not necessarily true.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: It hits everything neutral, but it itself is weak to [[CastingAShadow Dark-type]] moves.
* {{Expy}}: The Neutral-type is for all intents and purposes the exact same as Pokémon's [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Normal_(type) Normal-type]].

* MasterOfNone: Neutrals have no type advantage over any other element, only a weakness to Dark moves.
* NonElemental: Pals of this type tend to lack any specific element to them, often only being weak to Dark-type attacks and deals neutral damage to every Pal in the game. In exchange nothing resists it, though.

* WaveMotionGun: Their Ersatz-Hyper Beam in Pal Blast is this... and ''unlike'' Hyper Beam, it's not only ''not'' AwesomeButImpractical, but straight-up the best Normal-type skill you can get in the game!

[[folder:Grass Type]]
!!Grass Type

Grass-type Pals are associated with GreenThumb powers. They tend to come either as [[{{Planimal}} Planimals]], [[OurFairiesAreDifferent benevolent fairies]] or even [[BigCreepyCrawlies insects]]. \\\
Grass-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Botan".

* BigCreepyCrawlies: A fair amount of Grass-type Pals -- such as Cinnamoth, Beegarde, Elizabee, Vaelet and Warsect -- are actually inspired by insects and ''Pokémon's'' Bug-type, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute and are functionally the exact same as that typing]]. Also like said type, most of them are utterly massive compared to real bugs.
* BlowYouAway: They actually get quite a few wind-based spells themselves, from Wind Cutter to Grass Tornado. They naturally take a [[WindIsGreen bright green hue with it as well]]. As if acknowledging this, many Grass-type Pals learn quite a few of the other wind-using skills that Neutral-type Pals get as well.

* ColorCodedElements: Grass-typing is represented as Green, and many Grass-types are varying shades of green and yellow.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: They utterly wreck most Ground-types, but are burnt to a crisp by Fire-types.

* FairyCompanion: Several Grass-types -- like Flopie, Verdash, Vaelet, Petalia and Lyleen -- actually take a lot from the more benevolent side of ''Pokémon's'' Fairy-type, often representing the "Seelie Court" with whimsical, friendly fairies and nature spirits. They're in every way more benevolent than [[TheFairFolk the night-time fairies]].
* FantasticFlora: Just going by its attacks, the Grass-type includes plants who can shoot seeds like machine guns, giant seeds that can serve as land mines, tornados made of grass, as well as giant spiked vines impaling targets from afar. And that's just the ''moves'', we haven't even talked about the Pals!

* GreenThumb: The crux of powers for the type involve manipulating plants and other nature aspects, naturally.

* OurNymphsAreDifferent: Many Grass-types -- such as Petalia, Flopie and Lyleen -- were actually feminine [[NatureSpirit Nature Spirits]] who were fairies in their own right.

* WeakToFire: They are melted to pieces by Fire-type Pals.
* WindIsGreen: While Neutral-type Wind manifests as a whitish-blue, Grass-type Wind tends to appear with a bright green shade.

[[folder:Fire Type]]
!!Fire Type

Fire-type Pals are associated with pyrokinetic abilities. They tend to have lots of damage-dealing capabilities and are often found in volcanic areas, but they're easily doused by water-type attacks. \\\
Fire-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Ignis".

* AttackAttackAttack: Much like it's counterpart in Pokémon, Fire-type Pals tend to have nothing but physical attacks as they burn everything in their path.

* ElementalPersonalities: While there's inevitably exceptions to the rule, a great deal of Fire-type Pals are portrayed as HotBlooded, HairTriggerTemper or even TheBerserker, like Arsox, Vanwyrm, Ragnahawk, Blazehowl and Blazamut.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: They are super effective against Grass-type and Ice-type Pals, but are doused by Water-type moves.

* FlamingHair: This design feature is popular among Fire-types, such as Pyrin or Blazehowl.
* GlassCannon: They tend to have this stat distribution of having high Attack, but low Defense. Helping things is that they're the ''only'' type in the game who hits for ''two'' different elements super effectively.
* KillItWithWater: All Fire-types are weak to Water-type attacks, so this is the best way to take one out.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: It's only natural that Fire-type Pals are immune to walking on lava or being burned.

* WreathedInFlames: Many Fire-type Pals tend to be surrounded in flames themselves.

[[folder:Water Type]]
!!Water Type

Water-type Pals are associated with hydrokinetic abilities. They often tend to be amphibious or maritime animals. \\\
Water-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Aqua".

* AcidAttack: They can learn Acid Rain as an ability, which is surprising for a Water-type {{Phonymon}} game for the type to have.
* AquaticMook: Several wild Water-type Pals are fought while on water or near it.

* ColorCodedElements: WaterIsBlue, as are most Water-types' color schemes.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: It completely douses any Fire-types, but is zapped to oblivion by Electric-type attacks.

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Practically all Water-types based on fish just seem to float in midair when battling on land.
* IceMagicIsWater: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]], unlike its equivalent in ''Pokémon''. Most Water-types, with a few exceptions like Pengullet, usually ''cannot'' learn Ice-type moves without Skill Fruits, likely done to balance the type more comparatively speaking.
* LastDiscMagic: You tend to get Hydro Laser at the max level, and it's the strongest Water-type move in the game by a considerable margin.

* RainDance: A Water-type move that makes it rain can be found in [[AcidAttack Acid Rain]].
* SeaMonster: Many of the more powerful Water-types have a place in the in-game lore as one of these, such as Jormuntide, which is for all intents and purposes a giant sea serpent with a temper a mile wide.
* WaterIsBlue: The majority of Water-types have blue coloration to them.

[[folder:Electric Type]]
!!Electric Type

Electric-type Pals are the second rarest of all the Pals, and are capable of electric abilities. They're hard to find, but can be found more commonly in desert areas. \\\
Electric-type variant Pals are identified by the suffix "Lux".

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: The pen-ultimate and ultimate skills for Electric types -- Lightning Strike and Lightning Bolt -- almost look like calling upon God's judgement to smite the poor sucker in the way of you and your Pal.
* ColorCodedElements: The Electric-type icon is [[YellowLightningBlueLightning Yellow]], as are a majority of Electric-types themselves.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Electric-types utterly obliterate most Water-types, but they're sitting ducks against Ground-types.

* FastAsLightning: Several Electric-types tend to have high speed as a rule, but not all of them. Grizzbolt is a good example of an [[MightyGlacier aversion]].

* LastDiscMagic: Lightning Strike's generally the last skill an Electric-type Pal gets, and for good reason.
* LivingBattery: Electric-type {{mons}} can serve as this.
* LogicalWeakness: Electricity is not conductible through the ground, so it's a given Ground-type Pals would shrug off Electric-type powers like it's nothing.

* StaticElectricity: Most Electric types are coated in fur for building up static charges as part of the implied explanation for how they generate electricity, and some super-fluffy Pals like Cremis can learn Electric-type moves despite lacking the type for this reason.

* ConvectionShmonvection: While played straight in regards to Pals with fiery body parts being able to handle flammable objects without igniting them, this is averted when it comes to using their flame-producing moves, as a Pal so much as passing nearby a wooden building using a WreathedInFlames move will set it ablaze, which due to fire spreading too fast to effectively extinguish large wooden objects means you might as well say goodbye to it and hope you've advanced far enough in the Tech tree to make stone buildings.

Grass-type Pals are associated with GreenThumb powers. They tend to come either as [[{{Planimal}} Planimals]], [[OurFairiesAreDifferent benevolent fairies]] or even [[BigCreepyCrawlies insects]].

Fire-type Pals are associated with pyrokinetic abilities. They tend to have lots of damage-dealing capabilities and are often found in volcanic areas, but they're easily doused by water-type attacks.

Water-type Pals are associated with hydrokinetic abilities. They often tend to be amphibious or maritime animals.

Electric-type Pals are the second rarest of all the Pals, and are capable of electric abilities. They're hard to find, but can be found more commonly in desert areas.

Ice-type Pals are often commonly found in cold regions to the far north and the mountains. They practice cryokinetic abilities, but they're easily melted by flames.

Ground-type Pals have the ability to manipulate the earth beneath their feet. They are often found either in the deserts or in cavern areas.

Dark-type Pals are known for their ability to project black magic. They are almost never found during they day; they often either inhabit caverns or come out at night. They are likewise also associated with anything from creatures associated with the dark element, to malevolent fairies, ogres or creatures of myth, to even wraiths and ghosts.